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CES 2024 The Most Powerful Tech Event in the World
the first unofficial day of CES 2024 has come and gone and it feels like we’ve
been run over by a giant metaphorical 18wheeler full of press conferences from
home robots to electric vehicles to AI laptops and processors there was news
from pretty much all areas of tech there were pleasant surprises like Samsung’s
cute New Bali robot ball and Sony’s spatial content creation headset and
intriguing Concepts like Razor’s vibrating cushion for gamers we also got
exactly what we expected in the form of new processors from the likes of AMD
Intel and Nvidia as well as the subsequent flood of laptops carrying the
just announced chips for 2024 and for everyone else this CES also
saw the launch of things like headphones electric vehicles gaming handhelds
grills gaming phones Ean tablets strange hybrid devices noise suppressing masks
standing desks and more it’s a free-for-all and we’re nowhere near done
here’s just a small selection of the biggest news out of CES 2024’s press day
right before the show officially opens Samsung and Sony’s press
conferences had some of the best surprises this year Samsung like I said
showed us a new version of his Bal robot which is cute as heck it’s basically a
yellow bowling ball with a projector built in and it can send you text
messages and video clips of what’s at home while you’re out you can ask it to
close your curtains or turn on your lights or stream your favorite yoga
video to your ceiling while you lie on your back for a meditative session
Samsung told the Washington Post that Bali will be available for sale sometime
this year but it did not say how much it would cost I guess that’s another
surprise we can look forward to in the coming months meanwhile Sony brought us
a few unexpected demos starting by driving its Aila concept electric car on
stage using a PlayStation controller then it showed off its mixed reality
headset for quote spatial content creation which sounds somewhat similar
to Apple’s Vision Pro and Microsoft’s Hollow lens Sony’s does appear to Target
content creators though and it looks like a paired down psvr2 headset it’ll
be powered by a Snapdragon xr2 plus Gen 2 chipset support dual 4K olet micro
displays and have user and space tracking the new Sony headset still has
has no name no price but it will be available later this year also
dominating our news speeds on day one was the barrage of Chip news coming from
Intel AMD and Nvidia AMD for example launched a new radon RX 7600 XT GPU
which is a slight upgrade from last year’s entry level model the company
also brought processors with neuro-processing units for AI acceleration to
its desktop offerings by announcing the ryzen 8000g series meanwhile Nvidia
unveil the RTX 480 super RTX 470 TI super and RTX 470 super which will cost
$9.99 $7.99 and $5.99 respectively it also announced updates for his GeForce
now cloud gaming service adding gsync support and day passes for streaming
Intel kept things fairly tame and tidy simply giving us its complete 14th
generation CPU family including HX series chips like a 24 core I9 model it
also launched the core U processor series 1 which is designed to balance
performance and power efficiency in thin and light laptops now speaking of
laptops most PC makers followed up the chip news flood by announcing all their
models containing the latest silicon we saw notebooks from Alienware Lenovo MSI
Acer Asus and Razer among others MSI also had a new gaming handheld to show
us which is the first of its categories used Intel’s just announced core Ultra
chip Asus also put that chip in a non-lt prod product debuting a new homegrown
Nook meanwhile Lenovo continued to challenge our Notions of what a laptop
is with this thinkbook plus Gen 5 it is a weird Gadget mermaid of sorts its top
half is a 14-in Android tablet while its bottom half is a Windows keyboard and
all of it is just funky speaking of odd Android tablets TCL was here with a new
version of its next paper iink is tablet this year’s model can switch between a
matte e paper light display and a full color LCD at the push of a button the
company also showed off a miniet TV which at 115 in large is the biggest
mini TV with quantum dot technology to date we also got to check out razer’s
project Esther which is a proof-of-concept vibrating cushion showcasing the
company’s new Sensa HD haptics platform for more immersive gaming experience
that might be one of my favorite demos so far because well well it vibrates
it’s a vibrating cushion for most office or gaming chairs there was plenty of car
and transportation news too like Kia’s new Fleet of modular Vans and Volkswagen
adding chat GPT powers to his incar voice assistant the CES 2024 show floor
was also littered with piles of headphones earbuds and ear wax thanks to
announcements from JBL saniser and less-known names like Mo Jawa which put an AI
powered running coach in its bone conducting headphones at the pepcom
Showcase we also saw some intriguing and fun products like the skyed silent mask
that lets you talk in private in public as well as the lifespan standing desk
bike that lets you cycle really hard to generate enough power to charge your
